Posted on 09/02/2008 12:30:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Republicans shouldn’t mourn the loss of the first night (at least) of their convention. Sarah Palin’s warm reception by the American people and the relative success of preparations to contain the damage of Hurricane Gustav seem to have given the GOP far more bounce than it would’ve gotten from a "conventional" first night in St. Paul.
We’ll never know just how much Barack Obama gained in the polls from his magnificent acceptance speech. He spoke too late on Thursday for any post-speech polling to be effective — and John McCain announced his selection of Palin the next morning.
So the Friday night polls reflected both the bounce from Obama’s speech and from McCain’s surprise — which seems to have neutralized the Democrat’s gains. (That night, Zogby gave McCain a two-point lead; Rasmussen found Obama three ahead.)
Our guess is that Obama’s speech had a huge impact — counteracted by a huge plus for McCain from his surprise pick of Palin.
Meanwhile, making up for the loss of the first night of the convention is the contrast between the chaos that greeted Katrina’s landfall in 2005 and this year’s smooth preparations. McCain, the administration and the GOP Gulf-state governors should all gain. At the very least, they’ve all shown that they’ve learned from the mistakes of three years ago.
Palin is a godsend to McCain. She injects charisma and novelty into what would otherwise have been a deadly dull ticket. She has a compelling record of battling corruption in Alaska — uncovering misconduct by fellow Republicans and beating a GOP pork-king governor in a primary.
And his choice of her suggests that the old John McCain — the bold, fighting Senate maverick — is back. (News that Palin’s daughter is pregnant should make no difference.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Obama’s fantastic speech of which not a word is worth quoting. It’s sad.
The key to winning is to change the false debate around Palin - which can’t last - to one of her as a reformer who’s taken on corruption in her own party.
Someone please pass along Luke 16:10 yo BOTH campaigns:
“He that is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much; and he that is unrighteous in a very little is unrighteous also in much...”
This article, unfortunately, is already out of date. Drudge is now showing a respectable Obama bounce across the board with polls taken after the announcement of Palin on the ticket.
I probably should have watched Obama’s speech Thursday night to see what everyone was raving about, but there was a cold six pack in the fridge which needed attention as well. So I drunk the six pack and went to bed early.
>>>magnificent acceptance speech<<<
You’ve got to be kidding. The speech was a boilerplate political speech attacking the opponent. If it was magnificent, it would have contained phrases and sentences which resonate in everyone’s mind.
Barf alert, at least for that.
We must have a strong response now, or else she may get completely buried before the American people even give her a real chance.
It is very fortunate the GOP convention is this week. As long as people actually tune in to it, it should help us tremendously.
If Dick Morris told me the sun rose in the east and set in the west I’d double check him.
You’ll never attract the kooks that swoon over Obama.
The key is to talk directly to the sane in America and present a credible, pro-America, pro-freedom, limited government agenda for the future while contrasting it with the anti-american, marxist, death-cult agenda of a radical community organizer named Barack Hussein Obama
The only people I hear mentioning it around the water cooler today, are libs.
Yes, and the whole situation with and for Bristol is unfortunate. However, McCain’s chief vetter reports that everything that’s come out was willingly provided to them by Palin during the vetting—and there’s nothing more they have to come out.
It’s a big hit now, but it’s all they’ve got on her and it’s out early. And there could be the makings of a big backlash swirling. Let’s hope she hits it out of the park with grace (how’s that for swirling a metaphor?) tomorrow.
The scary thing is that they're moving away from the crap and starting to raise some serious questions, most of which have already been posted on FR. Was she really out there promoting pork for her city and state? Did she really raise taxes while mayor and governor? Did she leave Wasilla worse off fiscally than when she found it? These are the issues that may have an impact and the McCain camp had better start putting these stories to rest real soon.
The scary thing is that they're moving away from the crap and starting to raise some serious questions, most of which have already been posted on FR. Was she really out there promoting pork for her city and state? Did she really raise taxes while mayor and governor? Did she leave Wasilla worse off fiscally than when she found it? These are the issues that may have an impact and the McCain camp had better start putting these stories to rest real soon.
Pushback begins Wednesday Night with Sarah Palin’s speech.
As for Morris, he was pushing Condi Rice last year, so for him I guess Palin will have to do...
It occurred to me that we would do well to remember the vicious, racist, sexist attacks that the media launched on Condoleeza Rice when W wanted to make her SoS. The cartoons portraying her as a monkey, the uncle tom jokes. It was really hard to believe they were able to get away with it.
They will certainly hound her out if she is willing to dance to their tune. If she gets hounded out, we’re in big trouble and they know it.
Correct, they were able to define her and it will take a month to teach America who she is.
That being said, after said month people had better know the name Barry Soetoro.
Alaska has a larger population than Vermont.
Wow... I hope you don’t miss your chance to ask them
“what do you think is the morally superior position - a pregnant girl marrying the father of her baby and getting the full support of the grandparents in the raising of the child,
or someone who says he wouldn’t want his daughters ‘punished with a baby’ and implying that it should be killed?”
The pushback starts on Wednesday. It shouldn’t stop there, though.
Sarah needs to be “on the air, everywhere” as soon as possible. Not just to address the pregnancy issue, either. Rather, as soon as she is prepped and ready, she needs to get her entire remarkable biography out there. An end-to-end hockey mom charm offensive.
Otherwise, the MSM and Co. will be more than happy to do it for her, and I don’t think she’d appreciate their portrayal.
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